You’ve heard about borrowers getting kicked out of their homes, and you’ve heard about undocumented immigrants getting deported. Rarely do you hear the story that combines the two. Here is one of those stories. The foreclosure defense group of Occupy Los Angeles brings us the story of Blanca Cardenas. Cardenas is undocumented with two US-born [...]

The bank accountability movement that has grown parallel to the #OccupyWallStreet protests, and has benefited from its energy, won a high-profile victory today. Rose Mary Gudiel is a California public employee facing eviction because of a two-week delayed payment at a time when her brother was shot and killed. She can make the payments now, [...]

It turns out that I should have stayed put in Los Angeles rather than gone out to Washington for a liberal activist conference if I wanted to stay on the pulse of the accountability movement sweeping the country. The New Bottom Line, the coalition of bank accountability groups, chose LA as the launch pad for [...]